The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-13
LATEST NEWS.


Australia we have dates to January 9TH
inclusive. Following is summary OF
the news:
The California State Legislature is in
session, and strong opposition to
George Hearst for the United States
Senate is being developed.
By railroad collision near Tiffin,
Ohio, over twenty lives we're lost The
wrecked cars caught fire from the over
turned stoves and lamps and burned
the occupants.
A gang of forgers were arrested at
Liverpool while engaged. in forging
coupons of the International Loan bonds.
The police seized counterfeiting ma
chinery and false coupons to the amount
of $50, 900.
Thirty miners were imprisoned by an
explosion in coalpit at Mons, Belgium.
Six of the men have been taken out
dead
Two steamers and four barges were
burned on the Mississippi. Loss,
81 100000.
Dynamite was placed under the Geary
street railroad track, San Francisco,
with fuse attached, but was discovered
and removed. The striking car opera
tives repudiate responsibility for the con-
templated destruction of life and prop
erty. Rioting and wrecking of cars con-
tinue.
Lord Randolph Churchill's resigna-
ton was impaired to the Chimes" with
out the knowledge of his colleagues, and
by himself The relations between Lord
Randolph and the editor of the '"Tfmes"
have long been rather intimate. He is
without defender, however, and stands
alone. He resisted every effort to in
duce him to remain in the Ministry.
The Queen did her utmost. Lord Ran
dolph visited Her Majesty at Windsor
in company with Lord George Hamil-
ton, with whom he is neither personally
nor officially on good terms, and the
three talked matters over, but without
result.
Six soldiers were killed by gas ex-
plosion in the Cambridge barracks,
Portsmouth, January I'd. Twenty-one
more were found and extricated from
the ruins of the barracks. All of the
rescued were more or less injured.
A "World's" London special says ::
The Queen is breaking down very rap
idly, and she is conscious that her life
cannot be spared many years longer.
The only shadow over the jubilee year
is a 'general apprehension among the
people of England that the Queen may
not live until the year is completed.
The appearance of old ageis most clearly
marked in her jubilee portrait, which
has just been completed and placed in
the gallery leading to her private apart
ments at Windsor.
About two hundred lives were lost
throughout Germany in a recent snow
storm.
John Roach, the great American ship
| builder, was reported dying at latest
| date.
! A Fort Worth, Texas, dispatch OF jan
uary I'd states that there are 10000 peo-
I pie in twenty-five counties of that State
in immediate need of food, clothing and
fuel, while thousands more are in need
of seed to plant for the coming year. An
appeal to Congress and the State Legis-
lature on their behalf is being made.
Seventeen seamen were drowned as
the result of collision off the coast Of
| Wales.
"A fire in Wood-street, London, Janu-
airy LIST, destroyed an enormous amount
Of property.
British successes in Burmah are re-
ported.
Three Hundred Persons PERKS in
Fifteen Minutes.
MADRAS, January 2d.-The fire in the
reserved inclosure at the Peoples Park
on Friday lasted only fifteen minutes
1t is now ascertained that 800 persons
lost their lives, being either burned to
death or suffocated, while the number
| injured is placed at the same figures
The Commander-in-Ch and the First
| Prince of Travancore, who were present
escaped uninjured. Among the victims
were two European women, and many
European children are missing. The
fire is supposed to have been of incen.
diary origin.
The Fisheries War.
CHICAGO, January 5th.-The ''Times'' -
Ottawa (Ont.) special of January 4th
says: The Commanders of Canadian
cruisers have been instructed to make
all seizures in future for violation of the
fishery regulations under the provisions
of the Act just assented to by the British
Government, which means confscation
and not under the customs regulations
as has been the case up to the present